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Funny. But Richard Garfield didn't have any kids yet at the time he created the five-color system for Magic. He actually had cards made for the births of his children.

:ROFLMAO: Yeah, the lack of communication options is infuriating.

So, at least in part, this is a rant about MTG Arena. I have my own gripes with the platform, and I sympathize there. Monastery Swiftspear. In the right context, at least, there's a valid purpose behind publishing that data. This is a bit of a tangent, but I've been a longtime follower of...

Victory! I tried this deck out again. Got off to a slow start and eventually just used Ondu Inversion because everyone else was so far ahead of me. Built back from it, then set up Sisay alongside Kinnan and was able to fetch Esika. This causes the deck to operate pretty explosively. The card...

Well, I had Mystical Tutor, but I blew it messing around. I never topdecked a single way to get card advantage, so I sat on Dueling Grounds + Sandwurm Convergence. This kept me safe from combat, but the same Themberchaud deck that wrecked my Kasla deck last week used direct damage to finish me...

I've noticed that some people really dislike this deck, or more specifically O&Z as commanders. With that and my desire to test me newer decks, I've been leaving this in the bottom of my bag, bringing it to the LGS every week but never playing it anymore. Well, I broke it back out tonight...

Well, I need to get some more games in with this one. Haven't gotten much chance to test out the changes except Springleaf Drum, which is great here. Lost my most recent game trying to spread pressure across all three opponents, but I should have known to take out the Gix player before it was...

2020 didn't bring many new goblins, but it did introduce two of the most interesting new tools in a long time. The first is something of a build-around that quickly rose to prominence in Legacy, but has since mostly fallen out of favor. The second is easily the best top-end card for goblins...

I've got to take some time to give some recognition to Pashalik Mons, which has become one of my favorite goblins. As a 2/2 for 2R that doesn't boost the power of goblins or anything, Pashalik Mons doesn't really fit the profile for an aggro contributor to the Goblins archetype. But the...

I have mixed thoughts on the Standard stuff, but also don't really care about Standard anyway. Also, Earthcraft has been unjustly banned in Legacy for 975 consecutive weeks.

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/may-29-2023-banned-and-restricted-announcement Standard: Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki is banned. Invoke Despair is banned. Reckoner Bankbuster is banned. Effective Date: Tabletop and Magic Online: May 29, 2023 MTG...

The scope of this deck has changed somewhat. My original idea was to use Cultivator Colossus to dump enough lands onto the battlefield that Field of the Dead could generate a deadly army. With 85 lands, there was some chance that this interaction would whiff, and I had some backups built in. I...

I played Goblins in Canadian Highlander for a while, tweaking my deck a bit, but I can't find a saved decklist for what I played. Originally, my deck was an exact copy of a "Mac Goblins" list I found online, but that deck, which seems to have first popped up in 2016, evolved over time. The exact...

Played this deck twice last night. First game seemed to show some promise: I had Whirlwind of Thought and Jeskai Ascendancy on the battlefield. But I just couldn't draw into creatures! If I'd had a couple of creatures to get things going, the deck could have popped off. Instead, I watched in...

Won a game with this deck. I got to use my super-secret tech of Forcefield + Urza's Armor, and that's always a win in its own right. My opponents seemed to be poorly positioned against Withering Wisps, so I used Demonic Tutor to fetch it. Chaos Warp on my Wisps hit Urza's Armor, suddenly putting...

After considerable frustration, this deck won a game that it had no business winning. I went second turn Nim Deathmantle, third turn Dragon's Hoard, fourth turn, Flameshadow conjuring, then proceeded to topdeck six drops for a few turns in a row. In my hand were Scourge of Valkas and Kiki-Jiki...

Fourth turn kill. :P I went first turn Tranquil Thicket, then second turn Gaea's Touch. Third turn I cast my commander, but no one killed it or put any other obstacles in my way. They were still focused on building their own board states, laboring under the delusion that they'd have time...

This deck didn't really get a fair shake because it and the rest of the table got pubstomped by a high-power blue deck. I guy who built that deck often plays with unmodified precons, and I guess it didn't register for him that I was piloting one here, even though I told him so. Oh well. Better...

I bought this precon and now I'm going to play it. This is the first time in several years that I'll be playing an unmodified precon. Might make my own revisions over time. We'll see. It seems that Esika is the default commander, but Sisay is the better option, so I put Esika in the maindeck...

2018 introduced some cool utility options for goblins, but the standout of the bunch was always Goblin Chainwhirler. It's not the most explosive aggressive option, doesn't get discounted by Goblin Warchief, and it doesn't combo off, but it's great against some opponents. It still sees use today...